People

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 30, 24 July 1902, Page 10

People

At tho Coronation of the King in Westminster Abbey, the Duke of Norfolk, as the premier Duke, will kneel before the King ajid pay homage as tho representativ e of his order in tjia peerage. Sir Henry Tich borne who hns uistl enteaved upon his 37th year, is one ofj the 22 baronets who are invited to tho Coronation on the ground that their baronetcies were created before 1020. Sir Henry is the head of an ancient Catholic house. Says Kaiser Wilhelm of his only) daughter, I'rincess Luischen ' Myi daughter never forgets that she is tho daughtei of an Emperor , but she often forgets that her father is the Emperor.' Which goes to show in) what domestic groove the man of tho ' mailed fist ' moves m his own ilyMr "William Redmond when he returned to the House of Commons was heartily welcomed by his colleagues on the highly successful re-> suits of his mission to Ihe United States Ho gives a most encouraging account of the progress of tho United Itish League m tin; States. The position of chaplain to the lay Catholic undergraduates at Cambridge, in succession to the Rev E. Nolan, 1! A , has bet n taken b\ tho Rev A S Barnes. M A The appointment has been ade by the Bishops, on tho nomination of the IJiih versities Catholic Education Board Queen Margherita of Italy will! shoitly make a journey to the Holy Land on hoard the ironclad Marco I'olo Tho Queen will land at .Jaffa and go by rail to Jerusalem, thej Sultan having done all in his power to make the pilgrimage safe andj easy The Queen will travel with| only a small suite, and will not be! accompanied by her mother., who is still m poor health Mr Michael Herbert, who \a, according to a lecont report, the nowly-^ appointed MicLiNsor to the Lite Loi d Pai'iu cfotc as Biitisli Ambassador at; V, aslungton. is the brother of llerliril of Miickt os^ , late owner of th.iij laimiiis Keii\ pi opi'i t> before its 1 lumliasd l>\ Loi d Ardilaun Mr Muliafl Ilerlnit is uiairud into one) <>t the ' 1 our llmidicd families of iaUiiM ('hue, who has just passed aua\ m Ins 7,1 1 li \eat (says the Dublin ' I Miniaii s . Journal ; was, perhaps, the most popular Jesuit in Englami and Scotland of his tune He was quite a \ouiig man when he became lector at I aim street m London Ho went to Li\eipool m 1874 ;is Rector of St Fiancis Xaviers Ho was a puMcher of i emai kable power .md di.unatic talent, and as a Missionary I ,ithiT he diew large crowds of people of all deeds in e\ery city of (iie.it Jsi>itar,n Ills zeal lav moiej howe\ei in the dnection of working in an unobtrusive wav among the poor In his early days he spent hisi time in tlu 1 slums ot Glasgow, and on i ho occasion of his last visit there he almost broke down m the pulpit, and said in extenuation, with tho simplicity of a child, 'Somehow 1 alwa.vs feel a sadness w lit n J have to leavo St Joseph's ' Rumors of difficulties about precedence in 111 1 eland were rife some time ago and there would appear to bo. confirmation of these in a paragraph that is inserted for the first time in this jciir s edition of Bui ko's Peerage It l uns as follows 'It is Ins Maiest\'s pleasure th.it the following) rules be observed in the Coloines'V (a) Any member of the Koval r.unil\ , pcesenl m a Colony, shall rank ti' I c i of. etc , etc ' This is sufTicientlv explicit to sot all doubts at rest." and it, also accounts for the ' indisposition ' of his Maiesty's representatives' on certain occasions when it must

have been extremely awkwand foil him to take precedence of Royalty., In England the Lord Mayor, it is well-known, takes precedence of Roy,-* alty,' Iwith tho exceptiodi ofl the Sovereign and Queen Consort, in thq City. But the necessity is avoided whenever possible. At the great Uuildha.ll ball, held on the occasion] of Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887, the Lord and Lady Mayoress preceded the King and Queen — as they now aic — up tho long corridor nnd looked very uncomfortable at havingj to turn their backs on their Royal Highnesses. In fact, they almost walked sideways at iirst. Such are* the dilliculties of precedence. ' The Holy Father,' says a Catholic exchange, is not the only grand old man high in tho government of tho Church in Rome. Cardinal Ledochowski, Prefect of tho Propaganda, is another instance of what holiness) and energy united in a sound mind and a sound body etui offer in old age. One who can meet a serious 1 attack of pneumonia at the age of 80, antl recover, must have a vitality far beyond the ordinary. Although he is also blind from cataract, it is hoped he will soon resumq his work as Prefect of the Propaganda. This titlo probably conveys no definite meaning to many readers. It means that ho is the responsible general director of all the missionary work in tho Church In Rome he di-. rects a large staff of oihcials who help to sort and sift and weigh and answer tho thousands of questions and demands which pour in fi om all parts of the missionary world. Someone took tho trouble to analyse tho pedigrees of the guests 08 honor and the speakers at the annual banquet of the St George's Society of Ottawa, and discovered that tho Englishman pure and simple was in the minority. There were AngloScots, Anglo-Jnsh, Scots-Irish, and Franco-Irish, but the purebred Englishman did not cut any remarkable) figure. This discovery has led to mv other interesting one Canada had had eight Covernors-General since) Confederation m 1867, but only onel has been an Englishman. Viscount) Monock, the Confederation Governor, was an Irishman , Lord Lisgar was( of an Irish lanuly, though born in India ; Lord Dufierin (Irishman), the) Marquis of Lome (Scotch), J ord La nsdowne (of Irish and English blood on his father's side, and of Scotch and French Huguenot lineage on his mother's) '1 hen came tho only Englishman Lord Stanley of Preston, now tho Earl ot Derby, and each of his successors — the Earl of Aberdeen and thu Ear 1 of Mmto — have been Scots